Over 4,500btc traded today on BTCChina. This is the highest volume yet, and May has already seen the record broken twice prior. Current price is over $5.20 in USD vs. $5.00 USD on BTC-E... so any of you who can arbitrage I recommend you look into that pair of exchanges. The Chinese might need your coins, better have them ready.

all seemed to start from memorydealers recent presentation in China, this new 10 times previous normal volumes is probably the second wave of awareness & opportunity interest spreading out from that, exponentially hopefully